| CITY 3 SUNDERLAND 1 League Division 1 8th September 1956 attendance 35,753 Scorer Ref L Tirebuck |
City Savage, Leivers, Little, Spurdle, Ewing, Paul, Revie, Hayes, McTavish, McAdams, ClarkeSunderland Bollands, Hedley, McDonald, Morrison, Daniels, Aitken, Hannigan, Anderson, fleming, Shackleton, Elliott